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What's particularly worrying to me is that the US government has repeatedly applied very odd standards in cases like these. E.g. for a long time, government age
by Nitramp 11y ago
What's particularly worrying to me is that the US government has repeatedly applied very odd standards in cases like these. E.g. for a long time, government agencies upheld that they were allowed to read anybody's email without even obtaining a warrant, as long as the email is stored in the cloud.
Giving a country with such low legal standards and civil rights protection access to large swaths of all data is wrong.
- schoen 11y agoIn case people think you're making this up, the issue is about opened e-mails older than 180 days under the Stored Communications Act. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stored_Communications_Act https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stored_Communications_Act (The government's view is that the Stored Communications Act, even with this exception, is much more protective than what would be constitutionally required, because of the third party doctrine, which says that constitutionally you don't have any expectation of privacy in information that you gave to a third party.)